Working with Manny Ness, the issue of Working USA on “Global Labor Solidarity” that I have edited has now been published as Vol. 17, No. 2, June 2014.

As argued in the Introduction to this special issue, workers and unions in a number of countries are no longer waiting for the “established” labor movement of the Global North to provide ideas about building global labor solidarity—or even resources: they are moving forward on their own. This is a new stage of development.

To give you an idea of the contents of the issue, here are the articles included:

Ashok Kumar (originally from the US, now living in the UK) and Jack Mahoney (originally from the US, now living in El Salvador): “Stitching Together: How Workers are Hemming Down Transnational Capital in the Hyper-Global Garment Industry.”

Michael Zweig (US): “Working for Global Justice in the New Labor Movement.”

I also added a review essay of a 2013 book, American Labor’s Global Ambassadors: The International History of the AFL-CIO during the Cold War,” ed. by Robert Anthony Waters, Jr., and Geert van Goethem.

I think you will find these articles to be insightful, stimulating and interesting.